Cigarette holder



T. DUNCAN.

CIGARETTE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED IAN-3,1920- 1,422,347. Patented July 11, 1922.

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES THOMAS DUNCAN, OF EAST CHICAGO, INDIANA.

CIGARETTILHOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1 1, 1922.

Application filed January 3, 1920. Serial No. 349,143.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS DUNCAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Chicago, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette H0ld ers. of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in cigarette holders, and has for its object to provide a device of the character specified which may be held upon the finger like a finger ring and which is provided with means for grasping cigarettes, the grasping means consisting of blades pressed resiliently toward each other, between which the cigarette is grasped, the grasping portions of the blades being placed snfiicientl far above the finger engaging means to hold the cigar far enough from the finger to prevent burning.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a. side view of the improved holder;

Figure 2 is a front view.

In the present embodiment of the invention the improved holder is formed from a strip of suitable metal, of suitable weight and cross section, the said strip being bent to form a split ring 1 for encircling the fore finger 2 of the user, and a pair of jaws 3 extending radially from the ends of the s lit.

The jaws are pressed toward each other by the natural resilience of that ortion of the strip which is formed into tie ring. Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the strip from which the ring is formed is bent to encircle the finger with its wide dimension extending parallel with the axis of the finger. The aws, however, which are the extremities of the strip, are given a quarter turn so that the planes of the said jaws lie parallel with the plane of the ring.

The cigarette, indicated at 4, is grasped between the blades, and it will be evident that regardless of the thickness of the cigarette it will be firmly grasped between the blades, and the blades are of sufiicient width to prevent tilting of the cigarette while in their grasp. This the cigarette may besmoked without the necessity for handling the same.

The rin portion 1 is of such size that the ring may it} slipped on the fore finger, over the second phalanx, and then worn with the jaws extending outwardly from the back of the phalanx. \Vith this arrangement it is convenient to place the cigarette in the mouth or remove it therefrom, and the jaws are of a length to space the cigarette far enough from the finger so that there will be no burnin of the finger.

Normal y, the jaws will lie approximately parallel and near to each other, so that they may be usedas tweezers, the gripping action of the tweezers blades being brought about by pressing the blades toward each other. The jaws are so arranged that they will stand slightly separated when not in use, and the outer faces are roughened or corrugated, as shown, to form nail files.

The device is simple, may be very cheaply constructed, is of a size to be carried in the vest pocket when not in use, and it may be used as a pair of tweezers, a nail file or as a. cigarette holder.

Summarized it might be stated that this invention resides in forming a single length of metal into a split finger receiving ring and a pair of flat elongated coactin jaws between which a cigarette is adapte to be arranged. As illustrated in Figure 1 the spreading of the coacting jaws 3 is accompanied by a limited lateral movement of the ends of the split rin with relation to each other so that the resl iency of the split ring is utilized as a means for urging the jaws together.

I claim:

1. A cigarette holder comprised solely of a length of metal formed with a split ring and a pair of flat elongated straight cigarette gripping jaws, the inner portions of said straight flat 'aws being formed with quarter twists where y the 112118 of the cigarette between the jaws is at right angles to the axis of the split ring and whereby the spreading of the jaws is accompanied b a lateral movement of the ends of the split ring with relation to each other.

2. A cigarette holder comprised solely of a length ofmetal formed with a split ring and a pair of flat elongated straight cigarette gripping jaws, the inner portions of said straight fiat 'aws being formed with quarter twists whereby the axis of the cigarette between the jaws is at right angles to the axis of the split ring and whereby the spreading of the jaws is accompanied by a lateral movement of the ends of the split rin with relation to each other, the outer sur aces of said aws hein r roughened.

THOR AS DUNCAN. 

